Press release, autumn 2007

”Dark Side Tour 2007” – a tour with more than just one side

The most ambitious Danish indoor tour this year covers 13 cities beginning on September 28th. Pink Floyd Project perform the immortal Dark Side Of The Moon album and the show will be a strong synthesis of legendary music, a kick ass band and a unique sound, light and film show.

The music:
You know the drill: More than 30 years in the charts and a re-entry in the American Top 10 this year. A dull week shifts 10.000 new units in the US alone, and so it goes.
Dark Side was the first true concept work from the hands and minds of Roger Waters & Co., and sadly it’s every bit as relevant today as in 1973. An entire industry has evolved around helping the average citizen “choose his own ground”. At the same time our employers demand efficiency and dedication around the clock. Indeed, we often feel “we never seem to find the time”. Money rules in an even more perverted manner than it did in the bad old days of Watergate. Weary super powers still point their fingers at foreign cultures and thumb the Bible in order to gain credibility. Brain damage is still caused on all of those who fall prey to people who want to determine who their fellow men are and should be.
Strangely enough, these weighty topics are covered in some of the most accessible music the Floyd ever recorded.

The band:
The Floyd it isn’t, but the audience reactions speak for themselves. Pink Floyd Project is the only Danish non-original band whose shows are eagerly anticipated events. Stunningly authentic and deeply emotional, the Pink Floyd Project shows often make families and groups of friends crisscross Denmark to witness this cool and yet warm 10 piece perform live.
And this is not woolly nostalgia for a 50+ audience. Sure, they’re there, but the ones who know all of Roger Waters’ words are the fresh faced 15 year olds forming the front line at the shows.

The show:
Dark Side Of The Moon is the backbone of the show’s second half, but the punters can look forward to a 2½ hour show full of hits and oddballs. Ever since Pink Floyd Project’s triumphant performances of The Wall this summer (see photo) the band has being preparing for the Dark Side tour.
“We’ve been using quad sound for about a year which is a lot of fun and a great asset to the show. It really pulls people inside,” the band says. Film crews have been busy working up movies, stills and graphics that stay loyal to the Floyd vibe but also offer something unique.
“It’s sad when Floyd tribute bands merely rip off visuals off of the Pulse show or whatever. The music is so inspiring to us that we feel compelled to create our own visual world to go along with the great music. We acknowledge that Pink Floyd’s uniqueness was partly down to the fact that they went for all your senses and tentacles. We try to maintain that ambition,” the band says.

The set list:
1st half
Outside the wall (solo soprano saxophone)
In the flesh
The happiest days of our lives
Another brick in the wall, part 2
Mother
Coming back to life / Keep talking
Learning to fly
Set the controls for the heart of the sun/ High hopes
Nobody home
Goodbye blue sky
Hey you
On the turning away
Sheep

2nd half
Shine on you crazy diamond
Speak to me / Breathe
On the run
Time / Breathe reprise
The great gig in the sky
Money
Us and them
Any colour you like
Brain damage
Eclipse

Encores
Wish you were here
Comfortably numb
 

The Pink Floyd Project

- Much more than just another covers band!

From the outset it resembled a novelty or, more likely, a musical disaster waiting to happen. Today, six years on, The Pink Floyd Project is recognized as one of the best Danish bands to witness in concert. For the thousands of FloydFansTM, who have already been there, there is little doubt: Only Pink Floyd themselves come as close to the original sound as The Pink Floyd Project.

For the 10 members, The Pink Floyd Project is about much more than simply learning a set of songs off a bunch of old records. It’s about studying, understanding and presenting an emotional experience created by the members of the visionary band that was Pink Floyd. Therefore The Pink Floyd Project shuns the term “covers band”:

“We like to see ourselves as a concept band. We work hard on getting every aspect of the presentation right: The depth of the lyrics, the soundscapes, the epic musical constructions and – when there’s room for it on stage – the visuals. Everything has to be spot on and still remain faithful to what we feel is the spirit of Pink Floyd,” the members state.
And it seems like The Pink Floyd Project got it right judging from the facial expressions of the bands’ audience, that spans three generations.

Yet The Pink Floyd Project refuses to trade in cosy back-to-the-seventies sentimentality.
”We have no time for nostalgia. Most of the songs are still relevant in today’s world, and they resonate strongly with the younger parts of the audiences. The young understand the music on their own terms,” the band members say.

The audience recognizes that empathic attitude, and that’s probably the main reason The Pink Floyd Project is able to walk the line between cult and popular entertainment. And the statistics speak for themselves: No FloydFanTM would come back for more, if the band didn’t give their favourite tunes the right treatment.

Today, The Pink Floyd Project has built up an enormous repertoire with about six hours of vintage Floyd material to choose from. Even when going to a three-hour show, the audience will never quite know what to expect when buying the tickets. And the band really has all the bases covered: From the young Pink Floyd’s innocently trippy debut ”The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn” (1967) through the masterful ”Dark Side Of The Moon” (1973), ”Wish You Were Here” (1975) and ”The Wall” (1979) up to the Floyd’s Indian summer-era albums ”A Momentary Lapse Of Reason” (1987) and ”The Division Bell” (1994).

It sounds AND it feels like Pink Floyd.

www.pinkfloydproject.dk